We chose our name because the month of June carries special significance in the history of civil rights movements in the US.

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June 2, 1958

Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, got married in Virginia in June 1958. Interracial marriage was illegal there, and the couple was arrested on July 14, 1958. They fled to Maryland, and later became the plaintiffs in Loving v. Virginia, challenging Virginia's anti-miscegenation law.

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June 12, 1967 *

In Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court of the United States struck down state laws that banned interracial marriage.

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June 28, 1969

The Stonewall Riots, which are widely considered to mark the beginning of the modern LGBT civil rights movement, began on June 28, 1969, and lasted until July 3, 1969.

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June 26, 2013

Edith Windsor and Thea Spyer fell in love in 1965, and they spent the next 42 years together. When Thea received a fatal diagnosis in 2007, the couple traveled to Canada so they could marry each other legally before Thea died. When she passed away less than two years later, Thea left her sizeable estate to Edie. Under the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the federal government refused to recognize their marriage because they were a same-sex couple, and it taxed Edie's inheritance from Thea as though they were strangers - costing Edie $600,000. Edie challenged the law in Windsor v. United States, and the Supreme Court struck down DOMA on June 26, 2013.

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June 26, 2015

In Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court struck down state laws prohibiting same-sex marriage.

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*June 12 was also Nana Alice's birthday.

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